books.google.co.in - When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Fragments_of_Empire.html?id=4JgxpL4FCNUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFragments of Empire